Treasure of the Sierra Madre

OK, so old people can be as sexually licentious as young and attractive ones. Does this mean that we want to watch them doing it?

An epic tale of an outcast Vietnamese boy’s quest to find his American father

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. . .And, speaking of propaganda, there can be few more spectacular recent examples of the same than Ridley Scott’s G.I. Jane. Here is a film which has no single bit of characterization or plotting or dialogue which is not designed solely to persuade us that putting women into combat is right and reasonable and…

Another slow moving film about an encounter between Japan and the West in which two things happen — two more than in Oscar nominated Lost in Translation

A brilliant and heart-breaking Iranian film that is also a superbly plotted detective story